BEIJING : The commercial capital of China Shanghai and dozens of other Chinese cities are basking in scorching temperatures as unseasonably hot weather makes roads wobbly, tiled roofs jagged and prompts people to seek cool in underground shelters. ground. By 3 p.m. local time on Tuesday, 86 cities had issued red warnings, the highest in a three-level warning system, warning of temperatures above 40 °C for the next 24 hours. Construction and other outdoor work will have to be halted.
Shanghai told its population of 25 million to prepare for hot weather this week after issuing its first red alert in five years on Sunday. Since starting to hold the record in 1873, Shanghai has only had 15 days where the temperature exceeded 40°C.
In a photo shared on social media, a Covid medical worker in a full-body hazmat suit hugs a meter-high block of ice by the side of the road. Authorities citing climate change have warned of the disaster since mid-July, usually the hottest and wettest time of the year.
In a town in Jiangxi Provincean upward curve (6 inches from heat, state television showed.) Nanjing, one of the three famous “furnaces” for China’s harsh summers, has opened underground air raid shelters for people since Sunday, with wartime bunkers equipped WIFI, books and microwave. The city issued a red alert on Tuesday.
In Chongqing, the second “furnace”, the roof of a museum, melted, with the tiles of a traditional Chinese roof popping as the heat melted the tar layer below.
Shanghai told its population of 25 million to prepare for hot weather this week after issuing its first red alert in five years on Sunday. Since starting to hold the record in 1873, Shanghai has only had 15 days where the temperature exceeded 40°C.
In a photo shared on social media, a Covid medical worker in a full-body hazmat suit hugs a meter-high block of ice by the side of the road. Authorities citing climate change have warned of the disaster since mid-July, usually the hottest and wettest time of the year.
In a town in Jiangxi Provincean upward curve (6 inches from heat, state television showed.) Nanjing, one of the three famous “furnaces” for China’s harsh summers, has opened underground air raid shelters for people since Sunday, with wartime bunkers equipped WIFI, books and microwave. The city issued a red alert on Tuesday.
In Chongqing, the second “furnace”, the roof of a museum, melted, with the tiles of a traditional Chinese roof popping as the heat melted the tar layer below.
